Remembering LED Pioneer Nick Holonyak
| Date | 30th, Sep 2022 |
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| Source | IEEE Spectrum - Scientific and Educational Websites |
DESCRIPTION
Nick Holonyak Jr., a prolific inventor and longtime professor of electrical engineering and computing, died on 17 September at the age of 93. In 1962, while working as a consulting scientist at General Electric’s Advanced Semiconductor Laboratory, he invented the first practical visible-spectrum LED. It is now used in light bulbs and lasers.